diff --git a/app-forensics/yara/Manifest b/app-forensics/yara/Manifest
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index 7bdea3d1b8..0000000000
--- a/app-forensics/yara/Manifest
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@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-DIST yara-4.1.1.tar.gz 936115 BLAKE2B 6edf277702fb40513097195c730002875eef75502e92d672597ca09fefc054c14a082076877e8bea3daaeb05148a9116e2c302ea90a6ce6270e460fce31db658 SHA512 e4474254249d5b3fbb7231fdec5f4e080be042098e1b2bc953aa93513ce0b4742e34acac2911687e75055ecd589d942f71b79c58ca47eee243626ab3ec8add71
diff --git a/app-forensics/yara/metadata.xml b/app-forensics/yara/metadata.xml
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index 875695e984..0000000000
--- a/app-forensics/yara/metadata.xml
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-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
-<pkgmetadata>
-    <maintainer type="person">
-      <description>co-maintainers welcome</description>
-      <email>lssndrbarbieri@gmail.com</email>
-      <name>Alessandro Barbieri</name>
-    </maintainer>
-    <upstream>
-        <bugs-to>https://github.com/VirusTotal/yara/issues</bugs-to>
-    </upstream>
-    <use>
-        <flag name="cpu-profiler">compile with CPU profiling support</flag>
-        <flag name="cuckoo">enable cuckoo module</flag>
-        <flag name="debug-dex">enable dex module debugging</flag>
-        <flag name="dex">enable dex module</flag>
-        <flag name="dotnet">enable dotnet module</flag>
-        <flag name="jemalloc">use jemalloc to debug heap-related issues</flag>
-        <flag name="macho">enable macho module</flag>
-        <flag name="magic">enable magic module</flag>
-        <flag name="profile">enable rules profiling support</flag>
-        <flag name="tcmalloc">use tcmalloc as the default heap allocator</flag>
-    </use>
-</pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/app-forensics/yara/yara-4.1.1.ebuild b/app-forensics/yara/yara-4.1.1.ebuild
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index ddc420d6ce..0000000000
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-# Copyright 1999-2021 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=7
-
-DOCS_AUTODOC=0
-DOCS_BUILDER="sphinx"
-DOCS_DIR="docs"
-PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{8..10} pypy3 )
-
-inherit autotools python-any-r1 docs
-
-DESCRIPTION="A malware identification and classification tool"
-HOMEPAGE="
-	http://virustotal.github.io/yara
-	https://github.com/virustotal/yara
-"
-SRC_URI="https://github.com/virustotal/yara/archive/v${PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
-
-LICENSE="BSD"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="~amd64"
-IUSE="cpu-profiler cuckoo +dex debug-dex dotnet jemalloc macho magic profile tcmalloc"
-#TODO: test https://github.com/VirusTotal/yara/issues/1524
-
-REQUIRED_USE="?? ( jemalloc tcmalloc )"
-DEPEND="
-	dev-libs/openssl:0=
-
-	cpu-profiler? ( dev-util/google-perftools )
-	cuckoo? ( dev-libs/jansson )
-	jemalloc? ( dev-libs/jemalloc )
-	magic? ( sys-apps/file )
-	tcmalloc? ( dev-util/google-perftools )
-"
-RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"
-
-DOCS=( CONTRIBUTORS sample.{file,rules} )
-
-src_prepare() {
-	default
-	eautoreconf
-}
-
-src_configure() {
-	local myconf=(
-		--disable-address-sanitizer
-		--disable-debug
-		--disable-gcov
-		--disable-pb-tests
-		--enable-optimization
-		--with-crypto
-
-		$(use_enable cuckoo)
-		$(use_enable debug-dex)
-		$(use_enable dex)
-		$(use_enable dotnet)
-		$(use_enable macho)
-		$(use_enable magic)
-		$(use_enable profile profiling)
-
-		$(use_with cpu-profiler)
-		$(use_with jemalloc)
-		$(use_with tcmalloc)
-	)
-	econf "${myconf[@]}"
-}
-
-src_compile() {
-	default
-	docs_compile
-}
-
-src_install() {
-	default
-	einstalldocs
-	find "${ED}" \( -name "*.a" -o -name "*.la" \) -delete || die
-}